NEW YORK - Academy Award winner Anthony Minghella will write the libretto and direct a new work by composer Osvaldo Golijov that has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera.
Golijov went to Botswana last month at the behest of the Met and discussed the opera with Minghella on the production site of the director's latest movie project, based on "The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" novels. Minghella, who earned an Oscar in 1997 for "The English Patient," made his Met debut last fall directing an acclaimed staging of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly."
"I only saw rehearsals of `Butterfly,' and I love his film work," Golijov said in a telephone interview Tuesday night. "The …
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